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Posted by Art on August 18, 2007, 12:52 pm
The one good thing Toll Brothers does is use a metal pipe there for noise
purposes.
>
>> I took down a couple of pieces of beat-up sheetrock and found that
>> many of the cavities were almost completely full of pieces of
>> sheetrock.
>>
>> Any good reason why a builder (or remodeler, perhaps) would have done
>> this? The only thing I can think of is that it saved them the trouble
>> of carting the offcuts away and perhaps paying to dump them.
>>
>> I suppose they haven't been doing any harm, but they are a pest if I
>> want to install an old-work outlet box in a section of wall where I do
>> not remove the sheetrock.
>>
>> Perce
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>
> In one wall in a house I had built 20 yrs ago the builders gave me a
> funny look when I came in with a bunch of empty egg cartons and filled
> one of the stud cavities.
>
> The soil pipe from upstairs came down a wall between the kitchen and
> dining room. Never did hear anything going through it.
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